[darcs-devel] Re: [PR#99]: patch for review.

[Anthony Towns]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> On 2004-12-14, Karel Gardas <kgardas at objectsecurity.com> wrote:
>>FYI: currently I set exec for both user
>>and group, do you think we should use some kind of configuration mechainsm
>>(prefs) for this?
> Without directly responding to the prefs question, I know that for web
> applications, it's common to want CGI scripts to be executable by
> 'nobody' which sometimes implies having the 'other' executable bit set.

Isn't the usual thing to do just to rely on the umask being set 
correctly? If you don't want "other" to have write or execute, set umask 
to 005...

Cheers,
aj